To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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